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Time to fire this back up...Have been in the...er...BC @ 8 times and it was real!!!!! Sorta....Anyway several times with Telekid...and will send Biff a couple of pictures....We are calling it grass snow skiing as we were at an old farm site with a new barn...We also got up into the Highlands for some limb-rock sliding...Two days ago hit the Highlands with some snow..(2-3 inches) but it was totally covering the ground with a film of ice down under making it seem like lots of snow...Uh...Was able to get some linked turns in and did that ever feel good....For you that think we are nuts..(not far from the truth)...it is the best way to get balance and move muscles that need moving....In reality it's terrible skiing with excellent results...TM

Good workouts! Yesterday Telekid and I zapped a longish tramp...some skiing and a lot of BC horrors....The woods around Dead Moose pond were killer with about a half inch under the spruce and yellow birches and the ground was covered with serious whips...logs....branches...snaggles...water dips....Wicked balance conditioning and we even got a few turns in...Man! Today went to another place two miles in and caught a small ridge....What fun to link some turns in the forest...Very quiet with Coyote and fischer tracks...The cruise out was speedy and laid back....Good conditioning without the horrors....really it's all been fun as it should be...TM

Bout 30 inches up in the Highlands with 3-4 inches of powder on a breakable crushable crusty crust....Slow snow in sub zero skiing and right now mostly cc breaking and not really challenging the down with 215 e99's a really wonderful breaking machine...Thinking something wide might be the ticket for crust avoidance...16 below yesterday and 12 below now so twill be another slow one...Going to see if I can get some turns today with my widest ski...TM

Oh man! We switched from dial up to a satellite type thinger and.........Oh man....ohhh the problems I have with instructions...Whenever anybody says do this I do that!!!! Soooo was trying to get back on here...only took about two weeks and many tries....Great Grandfather Tele = greatgt....Still have not been able to figure out how to get on Earn your Turns what a laugh! Anyway went up to the Highlands in a heat wave of about 10o and it was good...The wide non cambered skis did well even though for the first time in ages I really had to "MAKE" myself try for a fifty-fifty spread for staying above the crust...Worked swell until I hit a serious did and went under and smashed my shins on said CRUST...Saved myself and with a self assured grin almost instantly went under again and ate some crust....Laughed and stayed fifty fifty....All in all some nice monomarks....Going to do the deed again today as it's supposed to almost hit 20o....Balmy!....A week of sub zero in the daytime has made me get out the facemask and think about goggles for the first time in years...TM

Bob Teleking, Telekid and I went out to get some pictures in -25o below zero...Oh yeah...numb and dum.....Didn't take long for the cold to be the issue....The SLOWEST snow known to man!....Had some shed skis that were retired but had NO camber and were PHAT...SHAPED....and heavy....@ two mph I could really kick the frozen snot out of them TK<TK...Heh They were slower than me! Forgot how debilitating that kind of cold is...Took a couple of shots....wrong lens.......and we got the hell outta there....To Teleking's Pool Hall and got the snot kicked outta me....But the beer was consumed and the Football good....Have had to keep the Wood stove going so as not to freeze up....Man that was cold...TM

I didn't want to complain when it was cold but wow, the upper 20's yesterday felt like summer! The good news is I will not be cold again for the rest of the winter. My dogs are so much happier, they spent 3 hours sitting outside yesterday. Looks like a nasty rainstorm is coming though, hopefully more cold & snow will follow.

With glazed eyes hearing more than seeing....somewhere in the far distance thought I saw three nights of 0-15 below just after the rain event...Musta been dreaming cause 20-30 below is damn cold...(Mostly up around here you can add another 10-15o to the Burlington centered forecast"...TM

Wicked weather.....Three days ago deep powder and needed bigger skis....Then mealy mush crush...then wet sloppy...and finally an inch of sleet and a slight cream on top....Going out today I know the bigger skis will ski the new stuff ok but will put on the e99's for cruising and hope that the snow in the Highlands consolidated....Not sure if the skinnies will edge and break that crust as the snow up there was so deep...Let you know...heh...TM

Liking this "Boiler" with a soft surface a lot....Build up some speed and the skis respond quickly....Lost about half of the 30 + inches but the surface is rounded and with some powder the cruising is excellent...Kinda in the category of cruising Cross Country with turns being the cream...Can turn on the steeps but running the skis flat on this surface makes one lean toward low to moderate steeps....Will get some pictures to Biff when I figure out this new configuration which knocked off my e mail type of thinger....Bummer...Love the skiing, love taking pictures, but dealing with this electronic stuff is a serious chore for this old dummy....TM

Did a Rox yesterday and skied up a knob with big clippers and opened up some wonderful areas for next year....Snow seems to be getting better with a creamy two inches on soft boiler.....Telewheels brought a former racer from the Killington area and she cruised with us up in the Highlands...No edges and she said next time edges....Seemed to be blown away when she entered Telecamp....We did not repeat the horror show of Sunday crossing a rapidly running stream of ice jams and fallen trees with ice sheets up on them...Sketchy crossing but the Krumholtz like area on the other side was a horror...the horror.....TM

TeleKing, Telekid and I cruised up to Telecamp and got the stove up there roaring....Brought in some standing dead limbs and the boys shoveled around and on top of the camp....Threw in a Tenderloin and onions with toasted bread and HIGGANS sauce made for a wicked sandwich....So decided to head down over by Burl Junction and then down a moderate angle glacially scraped area of open hardwoods....Clift's on a long ridge on the other side...Wah.....The conditions were wonderful with a hard base and soft cream powder on top...Turn on a dime and seriously fast...Wax was v45 or pink and worked all day...Boys were on bones and raved about them....(e109's) kicked the snot outta the bony skis....Well they kinda hit a different slope down as I usually try to get a head start being an oldie...man was it ever good...Some days the feel is just plain there and this was one of them Come around instantly and on to the next...Ride the skis build up speed....arc....turn....lift off on the down side of big old downed trees....Slide into dips and do air turns on the other side...Ski up the hill and then drop down in again for turn after turn...Damn...Best of the year so far...Who would believe....two inches on soft boiler...Oh Yeah! TM

Hells bells....Hardest part of yesterdays ski was getting up the road to Boot's place to park....4 inches of crusty crush down under it...Made for serious 4 wheelin....Snow was consolidating and as of now....below zero again....the crust has fused into boiler...Probably a good guess...Turns could be had but had to be careful as the half inch of powder on not quite boiler made one think, sort of....So it was low angle and careful slow skiing but not so bad...Twill be serious boiler today...Should cruise somewhere...but where?...TM